Lord moira, rigid and impassive, stands in profile to the left, right hand on his tasselled stick, left hand on hip, wearing quasi-military dress with looped cocked hat and high boots. Clouds, so coloured as to suggest a distant conflagration, and a low horizon, curved as if to indicate the edge of the globe, form a background. Beneath the design:
'"ne'er may his whiskers loose their hue,
" chang'd (like moll coggin's tail) to blue!
"but still -
"new grace adorn his figure;
"more stiff his boots, more black his stock,
"his hat assume a prouder cock,
"like pistol's, (would 'twere bigger!)
vide anti jacobin. ' 16 may 1799
hand-coloured etching. Date: 1799. Dimensions: Height: 362 mm; Width: 260 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and 2nd Earl of Moira, . Collection: British Museum. A man of importance (BM 1868,0808.12524)
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